DO NOT BUY A PRODUCT FROM A SINGLE ADVERTISER!
DO NOT WATCH A GAME!
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Posted on 10/15/2009 5:25:42 PM PDT by kristinn
The National Football League, in which each Sunday men weighing 365 pounds slam headlong into men weighing 245 pounds, has decided it can't handle Rush Limbaugh, talk-show host, age 58. C'mon guys, show some guts.
What began as a normal business deal—Mr. Limbaugh's participation in a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise—has degenerated into an unfortunate flap whose repercussions could extend well past Sunday afternoon football.
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What happened here, and is happening elsewhere in American life, is that Mr. Limbaugh's outspoken political conservatism is being deemed sufficient reason to ostracize him from polite society. By contrast, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who fires off his own brand of high-velocity, left-wing political commentary but lacks Mr. Limbaugh's sense of humor, appears weekly as co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America." We haven't heard anyone on the right say Mr. Olbermann's nightly ad-hominem rants should disqualify him from hanging around the NFL. Al Franken made it all the way to the U.S. Senate on a river of political vitriol.
But Rush Limbaugh gets hung out to dry by someone of Roger Goodell's establishment prominence, and barely a soul from that same fastidious establishment has the courage to step forward to criticize it.
It is no secret that this country's politics has become intense across the ideological spectrum. Rush Limbaugh lets his listeners blow off steam and then get on with the rest of their day. But if the people who claim to worry about such things want to see a truly angry right develop in this country, they should continue to remain silent while the left tries to drive Rush Limbaugh and others out of American political life. If that happens, the NFL by comparison will look like an afternoon tea.
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I may or may not agree with everything in your post, but it’s interesting to see parts of this and similar threads morphing into statements about football.
more likely, his last contract got the bank account over the hump to make this purchase attempt, knowing full well that it was gonna be openly smacked down with demonstrable libel...???
The NFL is nothing more than pro-rasslin’ with pads.
Damn straight!!!
I love football and I love Limbaugh. Not necessarily in that order.
I’ll never give up on either, although I know full well the NFL is run and populated with unrequited arrgant lefties, and the sports press is the hardest leftist corner of the State run media.
It is what it is, and I try my best to avoid pre-game shows and focus on what’s between the lines.
It’s what the media does best.
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That's why God created NASCAR.
I don’t watch football - I watch the Chiefs.
My oldest calls them the Chefs!!!! They provide the largest piece of paved ground in the Midwest to eat off a 'tailgate'.
Last year it was NASCAR that was attacked as being racist. Now Rush Limbaugh is being barred from purchasing a football team because he is conservative and therefore a racist.
The left are alienating many people who have not been paying much attention to politics up to this point. Look at how the enemies list just keeps growing; the oil business is evil, the automobile industry is evil, NASCAR is evil, the banks are evil, business in general is evil, insurance companies are evil, doctors chop off people's feet for extra insurance payments, now someone who wants to buy a football team is called a racist because he is a conservative. The left is making new enemies everyday of ordinary people who were not paying much attention until they were singled out as enemies of the state. This is a new twist on the saying, “A conservative is a liberal who just been mugged.” Many Americans are finding out that they have just gotten mugged by the Democrats. Keep up the good work.
Maybe everybody should just stay in the parking lot and ask them to announce the final score, lol.
Remember that TV ad that showed the groundskeeper painstakingly painting the end zone, but he spelled it “Chefs”? Funny. (Kinda like today’s “Wanna get away?” ads.)
The Rams lost 35 - 0 last Sunday
The Rams are 0 - 4 so far this season.
The Rams were 2 - 14 last season.
With the start they have perhaps they can make it a perfect season of 0 - 16.
Ah, no I did not know about or see that ad, but my oldest probably did and that is why he calls them 'Chefs' and has for years. I always thought he did it to irritate his friends whose parents always got season tickets no matter how badly things turned out year in and year out.
Enjoy your football on TV, and give them not a dime for your time.
Yeah, having a racist part-owner could really damage their record!
Thought it was Snickers but I couldn’t remember the slogan - found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gYApfUsaQ&NR=1
I’m done. Frankly it’s been getting less and less interesting over time and this sort of thing simply means the NFL has circled the drain and gone gurgling down into the cesspool that has become American politics. Like everything socialism ever touches, its inhabitants will be squealing and squabbling for an ever-larger share of an ever-shrinking pie. Enjoy yourselves, guys. I’m done.
Now I want him to have his team.
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